The award-winning writer says these supply brilliance, hope, and solace.
To know Anne Lamott is to see that phrases are her world. Writing holds the facility to unlock our fact and discover which means in our chaotic world. “You write to learn who you are and what you make of it all,” she recently told Sunday Paper editor Meghan Rabbitt.
For Lamott, simply as writing gives a portal into understanding ourselves, studying does as nicely. Opening a ebook can transport you to a brand new realm. It’s a present, and these three books are those she’s turned to and gifted for years.
Happy All the Time by Lori Colwin
“It’s so lovely. It’s brilliant. And it makes you so happy to spend 250 pages with these people—the most human, dear people who are really trying to do their best.”
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
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Collected Mary Oliver
“To sit down and read one poem by Mary Oliver can change your whole day. Because it’s going to give you the gift and reminder of wonder to go outside and see it all through your own eyes.”
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